Digital Consumers :
Digital Consumers : reshaping the information professions /
edited by David Nicholas and Ian Rowlands.
- London : Facet, c2008.
- xiii, 226 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The digital consumer : an introduction and philosophy / The digital information marketplace and its economics : the end of exclusivity / The e-shopper : the growth of the informed purchaser / The library in the digital age / The psychology of the digital information consumer / The information-seeking behaviour of the digital consumer : case study : the virtual scholar / The "Google generation" : myths and realities about young people's digital information behaviour / Trends in digital information consumption and the future / Where do we go from here? / David Nicholas ... [et al.] -- Richard Withey -- Chris Russell -- Michael Moss -- Barrie Gunter -- David Nicholas ... [et al.] -- Peter Williams, Ian Rowlands, and Maggie Fieldhouse -- Barrie Gunter -- David Nicholas.
There is a need for a new belief system that will help information professionals survive and engage in a ubiquitous information environment, where they are no longer the dominant players, nor indeed, the suppliers of first choice. This book provides that overarching vision.
9781856046510 (hbk.)
Electronic information resources.
Academic libraries--Effect of technological innovations on.
Digital media--Social aspects.
Sources d'information électroniques.
Nuevas tecnologías de la información y de la comunicación.
Recuperación de la información.
Neue Medien.
Informationsbeschaffung.
Aufsatzsammlung.
025.04 / DIG
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The digital consumer : an introduction and philosophy / The digital information marketplace and its economics : the end of exclusivity / The e-shopper : the growth of the informed purchaser / The library in the digital age / The psychology of the digital information consumer / The information-seeking behaviour of the digital consumer : case study : the virtual scholar / The "Google generation" : myths and realities about young people's digital information behaviour / Trends in digital information consumption and the future / Where do we go from here? / David Nicholas ... [et al.] -- Richard Withey -- Chris Russell -- Michael Moss -- Barrie Gunter -- David Nicholas ... [et al.] -- Peter Williams, Ian Rowlands, and Maggie Fieldhouse -- Barrie Gunter -- David Nicholas.
There is a need for a new belief system that will help information professionals survive and engage in a ubiquitous information environment, where they are no longer the dominant players, nor indeed, the suppliers of first choice. This book provides that overarching vision.
9781856046510 (hbk.)
Electronic information resources.
Academic libraries--Effect of technological innovations on.
Digital media--Social aspects.
Sources d'information électroniques.
Nuevas tecnologías de la información y de la comunicación.
Recuperación de la información.
Neue Medien.
Informationsbeschaffung.
Aufsatzsammlung.
025.04 / DIG